ZKL on linux (xfce fedora21) can't install spring 91, freezes

Hi there,

I'm giving ZKL another try (after using WebLobby for a while) because you recently moved on to a different protocol. Here's what happens:

I run the Zero-K_NET4.0.exe, it starts successfully and begins the download of the spring engine package.

Then in its output I see

/home/timo/Downloads/Zero-K_NET4.0.exe Information : 0 : Installing http://springrts.com/dl/buildbot/default/master/91.0/linux64/spring_91.0_minimal-portable-linux64-static.7z
xdg-open: unexpected argument 'x'
Try 'xdg-open --help' for more information.
/home/timo/Downloads/Zero-K_NET4.0.exe Warning : 0 : 7z extraction failed, fallback to SharpCompress

This happens because whatever ZKL is using to get the right program to use with .7z files must give xdg-open as the result, but tries to pass the arguments 7za would take. 7za is installed on my system, so that should work, but ZKL is probably not bothering to look for it. There's probably a good intention behind this, but it turns out to be bad in this case.

After that, the log continues on for a bit. I'm not sure if this is related to the engine unpacking:

ReadId: EncodedHeader
-- ReadAndDecodePackedStreams --
-- ReadStreamsInfo --
ReadId: PackInfo
-- ReadPackInfo --
[...]
ReadId: Name
[inline data]
FileNames: fonts/AUTHORS fonts/COPYING fonts/CREDITS doc/FAQ doc/LICENSE README fonts/README LuaUI/Sounds/bounce.wav [...]
[...]
ReadId: End
[end of switch]

Then I see a bunch more "New resource found" messages for maps i'd already downloaded at some point, and then two stack traces, the latter coming from the spring engine installation:


/home/timo/Downloads/Zero-K_NET4.0.exe Error : 0 : Error sending : System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at Microsoft.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ValidateEnd (System.Threading.Tasks.Task task) [0x00000] in (filename unknown):0
at Microsoft.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.GetResult () [0x00000] in (filename unknown):0
at LobbyClient.TasClient+(SendCommand)d__e`1[LobbyClient.Ping].MoveNext () [0x00000] in (filename unknown):0
Adding DesertCliffsV1
/home/timo/Downloads/Zero-K_NET4.0.exe Information : 0 : New resource found: DesertCliffsV1
/home/timo/Downloads/Zero-K_NET4.0.exe Warning : 0 : Install of 91.0 failed: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at SharpCompress.IO.ListeningStream.Dispose (Boolean disposing) [0x00000] in (filename unknown):0
at System.IO.Stream.Close () [0x00000] in (filename unknown):0
at System.IO.Stream.Dispose () [0x00000] in (filename unknown):0
at SharpCompress.Utility.Extract[SevenZipArchiveEntry,SevenZipVolume] (SharpCompress.Archive.SevenZip.SevenZipArchiveEntry entry, SharpCompress.Archive.AbstractArchive`2 archive, System.IO.Stream streamToWriteTo) [0x00000] in (filename unknown):0
at SharpCompress.Archive.SevenZip.SevenZipArchiveEntry.WriteTo (System.IO.Stream stream) [0x00000] in (filename unknown):0
at SharpCompress.Archive.IArchiveEntryExtensions.WriteToFile (IArchiveEntry entry, System.String destinationFileName, ExtractOptions options) [0x00000] in (filename unknown):0
at SharpCompress.Archive.IArchiveEntryExtensions.WriteToDirectory (IArchiveEntry entry, System.String destinationDirectory, ExtractOptions options) [0x00000] in (filename unknown):0
at SharpCompress.Archive.IArchiveExtensions.WriteToDirectory (IArchive archive, System.String destinationDirectory, ExtractOptions options) [0x00000] in (filename unknown):0
at PlasmaDownloader.EngineDownload.ExtractArchive (System.String target, System.String targetDir) [0x00000] in (filename unknown):0
at PlasmaDownloader.EngineDownload+()c__DisplayClass11.(Start)b__b (System.Object s, System.ComponentModel.AsyncCompletedEventArgs e) [0x00000] in (filename unknown):0
/home/timo/Downloads/Zero-K_NET4.0.exe Warning : 0 : Error getting new version number: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.



Hopefully I've given you enough information, so that you can fix it. If not, I'd be glad to supply more info. But now I've gotta go, it's way past my bedtime again :)


PS: forcing me to replace angular brackets in my post with parenthesis ... for shame, forum software ;)

1. Post "mono --version" output
2. Why do you use less tested Zero-K_NET4.0.exe, which was only made for WinXP users, rather than regular Zero-K.exe?
3. Googled "xdg-open: unexpected argument", 3rd link from the top https://bugs.launchpad.net/do/+bug/293507

Another promissing lobby, which partially supports ZKL protocol, is https://github.com/cleanrock/flobby (make sure to compile the zerok branch)

Thx for rephrasing my 2nd question, TheSponge.

Generally, a lot of distros unfortunatelly use software blobs as old as mammoth fossils. I believe users of such distros should be capable to perform upgrade of selected software. Otherwise they might want to consider switching to more straightforward operating systems like Windows or another Linux flavors like Arch.

If trying flobby use regular master branch, the zerok branch have already been merged to master and master contains further ZK specfic changes you want.

cool, i was able to compile flobby and start it, even connect to the lobby with the regular protocol. The zero-k protocol however won't fly; it probably needs a different address or port configured? but it doesn't say where it should connect to in the post about the new protocol or its comments ... there's also no note about it in the readme of flobby :(

A bit offtopic, but does weblobby works with ZK now? I once wanted to play but zero ZK games obviously.

In general what lobbies for zk linuxers use now?

thank you ivand, fedora has rather new software in general. In the case of jsoncpp it seems like the maintainer has disappeared after fedora 18 and fedora saw its latest update to jsoncpp 2013.

In the case of mono, I can't really tell why there was so little progress for the change request to upgrade the shipped version to mono 3. All I can see is lots of "needs testing" entries in the change request: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mono_3

zero-k lobby with mono 3 complained that it can't find libgdiplus.so, even though it clearly exists. I had to symlink /usr/lib64/libgdiplus.so.0 to /usr/lib64/libgdiplus.so to make it work. now it seems to run fine, but i couldn't test it enough yet, and i have to leave my gaming machine for the rest of the day.

Thanks for all the support!

Seems like I spoke too soon. Here's what zk-lobby outputs (after it's done a self-update and tried to download and unpack the 0.98 engine:

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5a6dea486555f7220a16

(hopefully) the "user32.dll" not found error have been patched! would you SixPairsOfFeet be kind enough to try it again pls, :(

it seems like zkl crashes way earlier than it can do the self-update, unfortunately